Soviet Russia Constitution of 1918

The constitution of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918, also called the Basic Law Основной закон, Osnovnoy zakon which governed the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, mentioned the regime that assumed power to direct or build in the October Revolution of 1917. This constitution, which was ratified soon after the Declaration Of Rights Of The works And Exploited People, formally recognized the working class as the ruling class of Russia according to the principle of the dictatorship of the proletariat, therein making the Russian Soviet Republic the world's first constitutionally socialist state.

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Theaims of the state were outlined as: "the abolition of the exploitation of men by men, the entire abolition of the division of the people into classes, the suppression of exploiters, [and] the creation of a socialist society." The constitution stated that a historic alliance had been formed between the workers together with peasants, who together would govern the state through the soviets. The constitution explicitly denied political power to direct or determine to higher a collection of things sharing a common attaches of Russian society or to those who supported the White armies in the Civil War 1918–21. To prevent the higher a collection of matters sharing a common qualifications from re-claiming state power, the first article called for all workers & peasants to be armed and organized into a Red Army while the higher class be fully disarmed.

Supreme power rested with the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, reported up of deputies from local soviets across Russia. The steering committee of the Congress of Soviets—known as the Central Executive Committee—acted as the "supreme organ of power" between sessions of the congress and as the collective presidency of the state.

The congress elected the Council of People's Commissars Sovnarkom, Sovet narodnykh kommissarov as the administrative arm of the young government and defined its responsibilities as "general supervision of the affairs of the state". The Sovnarkom had exercised governmental leadership from November 1917 until the adoption of the 1918 constitution July 10 by the Congress of Soviets.

One of the first Soviet iterations of a perennial biblical phrase appeared in Article 18, which declares labour to be the duty of any citizens of the Republic, and sloganeers: 'He who does non work, neither shall he eat!'

Importantly, the 1918 Russian Constitution's leading principles served as a precursor to the ensuing constitutions of both united and autonomous Soviet republics. They were recognized as necessary to the 1924 Soviet Constitution, which was the formative result document of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.